He retired to teach and write and handed the empire to his son Muhammed Bello.

Dan Fodio declined much of the pomp of rulership, and while developing contacts with religious reformists and Jihad leaders across Africa, he soon passed actual leadership of the Sokoto state to his son, Muhammed Bello.

His son Muhammed Bello and his brother Abdullahi carried out the jihad and took care of the administration.

After his death in 1817, his son, Muhammed Bello, succeeded his as amir al-mu ’ minin and became the ruler of the Sokoto Caliphate, which was the biggest state south of the Sahara at that time.

* Muhammed Bello ( reigned 1815-1837 ), Sultan of Sokoto

Much of the growth of the Caliphate occurred through the establishment of an extensive system of ribats as part of the consolidation policy of Muhammed Bello, the second Sultan.

In 1815, Usman dan Fodio retired from the administrative business of the Caliphate and divided the area taken over during the Fulani War with his brother Abdullahi dan Fodio ruling in the west with the Gwandu Emirate and his son Muhammed Bello taking over administration of the Sokoto Caliphate.

There was a series of revolutions by Hausa aristocracy in 1816-1817 during the reign of Muhammed Bello, but these were able to be ended by granting those members title to land.

Sultan Usman dan Fodio, Sultan Muhammed Bello, Emir Abdullahi dan Fodio, Sultan Abu Bakr Atiku, and Nana Asma ’ u devoted significant time to chronicling histories, writing poetry, and Islamic studies.

* Muhammed Bello, Sultan of the Fulani Empire, 1814 – 1836

Muhammed Bello () was the second Sultan of Sokoto and reigned from 1815 until 1837 and was an active writer of history, poetry, and Islamic studies.

Muhammed Bello was born to the fourth wife of Usman dan Fodio, known as Hauwa or Inna Garka, in 1781 Similar to all his siblings, he was involved in studies directed by his father in Degel until the family and some followers were exiled in 1804.

Usman retired from administration of the state in 1815 and put Muhammed Bello in charge.

# redirect Muhammed Bello

* Muhammed Bello

Undeterred, Clapperton continued his journey alone through Kano to Sokoto, the capital of the Fulani Empire, where by order of Sultan Muhammed Bello he was obliged to stop, though the Niger was only a five day journey to the west.

Settling in Sokoto, he took several wives, one of whom was a daughter of the Fula Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammed Bello.

Rabbani, son of Muhammed Yousuf, was born in the northern province of Badakhshan in 1940.

Anwaruddin's son, Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah, fled to Trichinopoly where he sought the protection and assistance of the British.

Jones also enjoyed a favorable relationship with Warith Deen Muhammed, son of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.

Muhammed Ahmad's posthumous son, Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, became a leader of the neo-Mahdist movement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan whom the British considered important as a moderate leader of the Mahdists.

Nasir's mother, Aishath Didi, was the daughter of Moosa Didi, son of Dhadimagu Ganduvaru Maryam Didi, daughter of Husain Didi, son of Al-Nabeel Karayye Hassan Didi, son of Prince Ibrahim Faamuladheyri Kilegefan, son of Sultan Muhammed Ghiya ' as ud-din, son of Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar II, son of Sultan Muhammad Imaduddin II of the Dhiyamigili dynasty.

Osama bin Laden was born the only son of Muhammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas, who was of Syrian origin, making Osama a member of the Syrian group.

Eleven years after the death of Muhammed bin Abd Al Wahhab the son of Abdul Aziz Bin Muhammad, Saud ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Saud, set out forces to bring the region of Hejaz under his rule.

A son of Mutʿib, the third amir, he was adopted by his uncle Muhammed, the fifth amir, and brought up to be his heir.

After the incumbent Nawab of Arcot was deposed and French coups abounded, Britain, supporting the old Nawab's son Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah and the Mughal Nasir Jung, began the Second Carnatic War.

Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Mbacke, the third Caliph and son of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba declared that Amadou Bamba had met the prophet Muhammed in his dream, a tale that has become an article of faith for Mouride believers.

Mutarrif's fate is unknown, but by 906, he had been replaced by Lubb's kinsman Muhammed ibn Isma ‘ il, son of Isma ‘ il ibn Musa, who was then assassinated.

According to history, the first dhigu laari was struck in the Maldives, during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim III ibn Ghazi Muhammed ( 1585-1607 ), son of the hero Sultan Ghazi Muhammed Thakurufa ' anu Akbar al -' Azam.

The style he pioneered remained influential on subsequent generations of Persian painters ; several pupils were prominent artists, including Mu ' in, who painted his portrait many decades later ( illustrated at top ) as well as Riza's son, Muhammed Shafi Abbasi.

The general, Muhammed Latif, told Reuters, "" I want the American soldier to return to his camp.

' Muhammed the char wallah walks around the camp all day, selling tea from his urn with his catchphrase “” chai garam chai .” We can also hear him sing the musical interruptions between the scenes, which are mostly popular World War II era hits, accompanied by a sitar.

The moment the news of what was going on reached the camp, Mir Mohib Ali Khalifa Emperor Babur's Grand Vizier's son and his followers were pushed forward to their assistance and there being no room for delay, numbers of separate horsemen, as fast as they were equipped, were sent off at the best of their speed while a regular detachment under Mir Muhammed Ali Khan moved forward to support them Mir Mohib Ali Khalifa who arrived first found every thing in disorder.

Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi (, ; also known as Rabia al-Makki ) ( August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

Primarily he represented the Chishti Order of Sufism, having received initiation into the Nizamiyya sub-branch of that order from Shaykh Muhammed Abu Hashim Madani, but was also initiated into the Suhrawardiyya, Qadiriyya and Naqshbandi.

The British began sending additional arms to Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah and sought to bring Nasir Jung into the fray to oppose Chanda Sahib.

On 29 July 1966, a group of officers, including Majors Murtala Muhammed, Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, and Martin Adamu, led the majority Northern soldiers in a mutiny that later developed into a " counter-coup ".

He entered into negotiations with Muhammed ibn ' Abd Allah, the Mahdi of the Ogaden, and sent him rifles and ammunition.

" Muhammed Quli Qutub Shah had the distinction of being the first Saheb-e-dewan Urdu poet and is credited with introducing a new sensibility into prevailing genres of Persian / Urdu poetry.

It was first translated into English by John Leyden and William Erskine as Memoirs of Zehir-Ed-Din Muhammed Baber: Emperor of Hindustan and later by the British orientalist scholar Annette Susannah Beveridge ( née Akroyd, 1842-1929 ).

In January 2009, Muhammed Al-Umair, Director of Colleges in the Eastern Province opened an investigation into the Girls Education College following reports of piles of garbage lying about the college going uncollected for weeks and alleged late-night break ins by Asian workers exploiting the absence of security guards and staff.

The latter polity had come into existence in 1577, when Muhammed Jasa moved his capital from Harar to Aussa with the split of the Adal Sultanate into Aussa and the Harari city-state.